Productions

2023

And if I don’t behave then what

2022

This Week, This Week!

In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play

Both 2022:
A HARD DAYS SILENT NIGHT

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

To the Bone

2021

First Look Festival 2021

Never Swim Alone

Both 2021: A HARD DAYS SILENT NIGHT

Soldier Dreams

2020

BOTH Retrospective

In a Perfect World

Rorschach Fest

Open Fist 30th Anniversary Gala

2019

Neil Simon’s Musical Fools

Dancing at Lughnasa

Anna in the Tropics

What Matters Now?

Last Call

2018

All Night Long

Under Milkwood

One Year Later

deLEARious

Tragedy meets hilarity andKing Lear gets a happy ending in a madcap musical romp à la Mel Brooks and Monty Python.

Open Fist Theatre Company revives its smash hit production of deLEARious, an award-winning play-within-a-play by
Second City’s Ron West and composer
Phil Swann.

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2017

Walking to Buchenwald

Both
Original Concept by Mark Wilson;
Gospel Arrangements by Jason Paige;
Music Direction by Chris Wabich; Choreography by Eboni Nichols; and
Direction by Martha Demson

Last Dance with Dog days of Summer!

Alternative Reality

Top of the World

Suzanne Murray, a lovely woman with two small children and seemingly everything to live for, just drove to the top of an overlook and killed herself. Her husband Brendan, creator of a TV crime show, is determined to understand why. But real life doesn’t solve as easily as fiction.

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The Gary Plays

Pop-Up at the P!
Before The Censors Stop Us

2016

Both 2016

Both: A Hard Days Silent Night (2017)

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Pop-Up at the P!
October

POP-NOBEER

Pop-Up at the P! August

The Gary Plays

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Sneak Peek: You’re Invited…

2015

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The Irwin Price Extravaganza

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Both: A Hard Days Silent Night (2015)

First Look 2015

First Look Festival 2015

2014

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Both: A Hard Days Silent Night (2014)

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Reasons to Live

by Meryl Cohn

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James Joyce’s The Dead

by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey

2013

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Mad Forest

by Caryl Churchill

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Both: A Hard Days Silent Night (2013)

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The Good Thief

by Conor McPherson

 

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Me Love Money

by Brandon Baruch

 

2012

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Hughie

by Eugene O’Neill

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Early and Often

by Barbara Wallace and Thomas R. Wolfe

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Modigliani

by Dennis McIntyre

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Short Ends

by Neil LaBute

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Moon Over Buffalo

by Ken Ludwig

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Foote Notes

by Horton Foote

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Curse of the Starving Class

by Sam Shepard

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Both: A Hard Days Silent Night (2012)

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Everything is Enough

by Elizabeth Berger

2011

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Proof

by David Auburn

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Machinal

by Sophie Treadwell

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Dear John Mayer

Score by Shoshana Bean Written by Eydie Faye

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Crimes of the Heart

by Beth Henley

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Both: A Hard Days Silent Night (2011)

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Room Service

by John Murray and Allen Boretz

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First Look Festival: 2011

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Fringe at the Fist: 2011

2010

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The Good Woman of Setzuan

by Bertolt Brecht

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The Existents

Music & Lyrics by Ty Taylor

Book by Douglas Crawford, Ty Taylor & Jason Wooten

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Rock N Roll

by Tom Stoppard

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Stage Door

by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman

2009

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Where’s My Money?

by John Patrick Shanley

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The Illusion

by Pierre Corneille

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Light Up The Sky

by Moss Hart

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Quake

by D. Tucker Smith

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Love Water

by Jacqueline Wright

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Devil with Boobs

by Dario Fo

2008

The Dead by James Joyce
Blue Night in the Heart of the West by James Stock
Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
deLEARious by Ron West
Frank Zappa’s Joe’s Garage Adaptation by Michael Franco and Pat Towne

2007

Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Travesties by Tom Stoppard
The Idiot Box by Michael Elyanow
Do Do Love by Laura Richardson
The Room by Michael Franco
Eenie Meanie by Teresa Willis
Seven Santas by Jeff Goode 

2006

PAPA (Revival) by John deGroot
2006 Directors’ Festival by Various Authors

The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan
How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients by Matei Visniec
FOODSEXWORKSLEEPGOD by Ron West
Autobahn by Neil LaBute
Beautiful City by George Walker

2005

The Chekhov Machine by Matei Visniec
PAPA by John deGroot
General Admissions  by Mark Banker
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
Speaking in Tongues  by Steven Bovell

2004

Abingdon Square  by Maria Irene Fornes
The Devils by Dostoevsky, adapted by
Elizabeth Egloff
Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltes
Birdbath by Leonard Melfi
2004 Directors’ Festival  by Various Authors
Lydie Breeze by John Guare
The Andrea and Hep Show 3 by Andrea Fears,
Hep Jamieson and Ron West

2003

Songs of Joy and Destitution
     By Charles L. Mee Jr.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, adapted by Edward Kemp
Playhouse Creatures by April De Angelis
2003 Directors’ Festival by Various Authors
the Andrea and Hep Show 2 by Andrea Fears, Hep Jamieson and Ron West
The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union  by David Greig

2002

Perchance To Dream by Jean-Claude Grumberg
Adult Entertainment, Problem Child by George F. Walker
Flight by Mikhail Bulgakov
2002 Directors Festival by Various Authors
The Mound Builders by Lanford Wilson
The Andrea and Hep Show by Andrea Fears, Hep Jamieson and Ron West
I Licked A Slag’s Deodorant by Jim Cartwright

2001

The Knacker’s ABC by Boris Vian
The Wooden Breeks* by Glen Berger
Casanova by Constance Congdon
2001 Directors Festival by Various Authors
Fen by Caryl Churchill
Sharon and Billy by Alan Bowne
The Freedom Ball by Chelsea Hackett
Exmass by Bradley Rand Smith, Lewis Black & Mark Houghtaling

2000

The Abdication by Ruth Wolff
Cowboy Mouth; Lobster Man* by Sam Shepard, Martin George
How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients* by Matei Visniec
Talk Show From Hell* by Jean-Noël Fenwick
The King Stag by Carlo Gozzi
2000 Directors Festival by Various Authors
Measure 4 Measure by William Shakespeare
Three Sisters by Anton Chekov
Bay of Smokes* by Alena Wilson and Alisa Wilson

1999

Fall Off Night* by Allison Gregory
Widows by Ariel Dorfman & Tony Kushner
Slippery People* by Charley McQuary
The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
Escape From Happiness by George F. Walker

1998

Getting Into My Skin* by Saleem
Time Lost* by Jack O’Rourke
God’s Country by Steven Dietz
Sex, Death and Other Annoyances* by Ron West
The Accompanist by Berberovna/Adapt. Giurgea
Skin by Naomi Iizuka
We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! by Dario Fo
Fall ’98 One-Act Festival by Various Authors
The Notcracker Project* (with Circle X) by Various Authors

1997

Salam, Shalom* by Saleem
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
Titanic by Christopher Durang
The Vakhos by Euripides
Tabooki* (Serial) by Various Authors
After Easter by Anne Devlin
Buddy Jack* Adapted by Ron West, Joe Liss

1996

A Warring Absence by Jody Duncan
Time Piece; Guernica by D. O’Brian, Neal Bell
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht
The God Game by Allison Burnett
Journey of the Fifth Horse by Ronald Ribman
New York 243 by J.D. Zeik

1995

Etta Jenks by Marlene Meyer
The Flight of the Earls by Christopher Humble
Behemoth* by Della Vecchia, Smith
The Moke Eater by Ken Bernard
Blood and Stumbo; Falling by Beth Burns
Underground by Mark Litton
The Ghost Diaries by Keith Mason

1994

The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Night Angel by William Piana
Vieux Carre by Tennessee Williams
Hush by April De Angelis

1993

Blood Moon by Nicholas Kazan
Cinders by Janusz Glowacki
Ms. Julie by August Strinberg
The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria by Fernando Arrabal
The Last Word* by Tony Spiridakis
After the Bomb by Roxy Ventola

1992

Baal by Bertolt Brecht
Dusa, Fish, Stas, and Vi by Pam Gems
Goose and Tomtom by David Rabe
Poor Murderer by Pavel Kahout
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Tiny Alice by Edward Albee

1991

Car Cemetery by Fernando Arrabal
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
Exit the King by Eugene Ionesco
Professor George by Marsha Sheiness

1990

True West by Sam Shepard

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